The LGiU is working with Mears Group to help tell the story of the human impact of provider failure and withdrawal from the home care market and we will be publishing these stories alongside analysis of how the current state of commissioning and funding of home care is putting providers on the edge and creating turmoil in the lives of everyone in the system, including people who need care and their families.

We interviewed individuals who have lived through that experience to help us tell that story. We heard from people who have experience of working for failing care companies, from people whose care companies have gone out of business, from individuals and their families who have experienced this disruption and from people who work in local government who have had to pick up the pieces.